This is a time where community needs to jump in and we all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side of this guy, and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push.
Bowser calls for community involvement and political action during a town hall meeting.
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If the priority is to show force in an American city, we know he can do that here. But it won’t be because there’s a spike in crime.
the D.C. National Guard in response, which the White House has not chosen to actually do.
We have the best in the business in MPD Chief Pamela Smith to lead that effort and to make sure that the men and women who are coming from federal law enforcement are being well-used and that if there’s National Guard here, they’re being…
My expectation, though it can change, is that they will deploy the Guard on federal properties — that includes parks, monuments, federal buildings.
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